Community Development through Creative Action

Teodora Borghoff is a local development expert, with extensive experience in facilitating participatory processes with multiple stakeholders, project design and project implementation for various structures ranging from NGOs to public administration. She has contributed in Timișoara’s candidacy for the European Capital of Culture Title from various positions and perspectives: first as executive director of the Timișoara European Capital of Culture Association (February-December 2012), later on as community facilitator and content editor of the bidbook (January – December 2016). Her experience in projects which reconcile and activate the members of the community was enriched as an EU-AID senior volunteer, and lobby and advocacy advisor in Ethiopia, and as programme director at the Timișoara Community Foundation.